The Mariners turned a Microsoft Word document into an amazing hype video and fans loved the creativity

The BEST rally video of the season.

In recent years, we’ve seen MLB teams go all out with highly produced walk-up videos for closers. The Mets with Edwin Diaz and the Twins with Jhoan Durán are right up there with the best of them. The Mariners, though, may have put together this season’s coolest hype video, and it was astoundingly simple.

As the Mariners went into the bottom of the eighth inning of Friday’s game against the Angels down a run, the videoboard at T-Mobile Park *appeared* to have a technical difficulty. Fans were greeted with the “blue screen of death” and a Microsoft reboot. But it was all a pre-planned video, and it was so good.

Check it out:

I don’t think the fans at T-Mobile Park that night ever imagined that a Word document could get them hyped up, but it certainly worked. Just a couple batters later, Ty France would hit a go-ahead two-run homer. The Mariners would hold on to win, 5-4.

Fans also loved the creativity there. Great job by the stadium production team.

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